Meta is seeking a Research Engineer to join our Optical Character Recognition (OCR) team. We conduct focused research and engineering to build state-of-the-art OCR models that power all of Meta’s products. We are looking for strong engineers who have a background in OCR, CV or NLP.

Research Engineer, Language - OCR Responsibilities

Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to push forward the state of the art in OCR models.

Define research goals informed by practical engineering concerns.

Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing results.

Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU).

Work with a large and globally distributed team.

Contribute to publications and open-sourcing efforts.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Research experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing.

Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact.

Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch.

Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications.

Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

A PhD in AI, computer science, data science, or related technical fields.

Direct experience in OCR research.

First author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL).

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$70.67/hour to $208,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate, monthly rate, or annual salary only, and do not include bonus, equity or sales incentives, if applicable. In addition to base compensation, Meta offers benefits. Learn more about benefits at Meta.

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Research Engineer

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